Engaging Ambivalent Clients: Enhancing Motivation and Building Self-efficacy

About this event

Enhancing our client’s motivation to change and building their self-efficacy is absolutely paramount when it comes to treating people experiencing eating and body image issues- including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. This one day workshop for allied health practitioners provides an introduction to/ refresher of motivational interviewing with a specific application to eating disorders. In particular the workshop will emphasize how to work with clients in precontemplative, contemplative and determination/ preparation stages of change.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the transtheoretical stages of change with specific application to eating disorders
• Appreciate the key barriers to recovery for eating disorder sufferers Understand how to support clients to move through precontemplation, contemplation and preparation stages of change 
• Understand how to build insight in people experiencing eating and body image issues
• Describe a novel treatment mechanism positing open expression = trust = social connectedness
• Increase motivation to change for people experiencing eating and body image issues
• Build self efficacy in people experiencing eating and body image issues